NEWSLETTER
of the

AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 24 Number 6  December 1982/January 1983

A PRIME NUMBER

This December ends our thirteenth year of editing the Newsletter. At 56 the editor feels too superannuated to be a teenager, but considers 1982 a prime year. Our "sabbatical" didn't exactly liberate us but did provide practice at saying no. We had time to think about the '80s as "the decade we get organized (better hurry!) and about what else we want to accomplish (now where did I put that list?). We missed a few deadlines, including this one (but moving each deadline up a month means that even though we're three weeks behind schedule, we're a week ahead of last year).

To celebrate that kind of dynamic progress we sat down and read all the thirteenth chapters in the New Testament. Such out-of-context shopping-around usually doesn't appeal, but this time we let life's circumstances supply the context. What struck us was a sense of movement and anticipation in each of those ten chapters, from Jesus' parables in Matthew 13 about what to do and what to expect "until the end" to Revelation 13's prophecies of frightening events that will call for wisdom and for "patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints" (NIV).

Then in October I went to Ottawa for the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation's annual meeting, which focused on the environmental crisis. Several Christians in positions of responsibility told of the burden of decision-making in the present situation, and of their need for divine counsel. We concluded that we need the Holy Spirit and each other-the collective input of Godly men and women of science-to aid those in decision making roles.

Finally, in November I was in Philadelphia at a Christian Medical Society graduate leadership conference. Speaking on the spiritual needs of the academic world, I recalled an unusual research seminar at Oral Roberts School of Medicine. The seminar speaker had received excellent scientific critique, in a sensitive and affirming manner-and then at the end we laid hands on him and prayed for his research.

Is there not room for such encounters with the Spirit of God in all of our professional lives? Perhaps, in the turbulent present-day world of science, our collective guidance, tempered by mutual love and respect and by the authority of Scripture, is a dimension of ministry many of us have overlooked.

The ASA Executive Council met in Ipswich in November. The council explored tangible ways to deal collectively with some of the pressing and perplexing issues of our times. Please continue praying about how you might contribute to a ministry of guidance through our affiliation.

The Finch Symposium is sponsored by the faculty of the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller and is attended yearly by leaders in the social and behavioral sciences. It was established to deepen understanding of religious behavior as seen in the light of those sciences. The series is named for John G. Finch, the Tacoma, Washington, psychologist whose inspiration and efforts led to the founding of Fuller's Graduate School of Psychology.

Dave Moberg has been active in the affairs of ASA for many years and in the early 1960s was the second editor of JASA.

Whether or not you give a paper you can combine a family vacation in the Great Northwest with the highest kind of Christian fellowship and intellectual stimulation. You might even pick up an idea whose time has come-or is yet to come. For instance, in Science for 12 November 1982 you can read about "A Bibliophile's Quest for Copernicus," Harvard professor Owen Gingerich's tale of scouring the world for copies of the 16thcentury classic, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres. But if you had attended the 1980 Annual Meeting at Eastern College, you'd have heard that story in person two years in advance of publication-and seen Gingerich's marvelous slides, to boot.

More details on the 1983 ANNUAL MEETING coming soon. But mark the dates now on your new 1983 calendar (or on your old 1977 one, if you recycle calendars with the identical pattern of days).

Some ASA members can't get to Annual Meetings. With the wonders of modern technology, however, they can at least hear the keynote addresses. The three 1982 lectures by geneticist V. Elving Anderson are available on cassette tape at $4 each, plus postage and handling, from the ASA office, P.O. Box J, Ipswich, MA 01938. The lectures review modern developments in genetics, their application to inherited diseases, and Elving's insights on theological guidelines for "genetic engineering."

At least two former presidents of Wheaton College have been members of ASA: chemist RogerJ . Voskuyl and the late philosopher-theologian J. Oliver Buswell, Jr.

The current rate for 3rd-class mail under one ounce (printed meeting announcements, etc.) is 4.9c per piece. That means that if a local section mails out more than 265 Ist-class letters per year, or more than 494 postcards, it could save money with a bulk mail permit. This calculation is based only on the $40 annual fee.

Paul suggests experimenting with delivery time of 3rd-class mail to be sure notices are mailed out early enough. He can offer some help regarding the proper procedures to apply for a permit. Paul's address is 10205 Folk St., Silver Spring, MD 20901.

they're looking for a "personal computer," especially one that could be donated by "any firm, organization, or individual in the USA."

Dale wrote to ASA News "on the chance that some ASA member might know of a computer that is up for grabs." If so, the person to contact is: Dr. Therese Watts, Dept. of Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Zambia, P.O. Box 50110, Lusaka, Zambia."

Another communication is from JASA editor Dick Bube, assuring the consulting editors that his desire to resign after 1983 is actually to free up time to serve ASA in other ways. For example, he plans to combine a research sabbatical in Europe in 1984 with interaction with various European Christian groups. Revised therapy for his back is giving Dick more freedom of action, and after fifteen years he thinks the Journal can benefit from someone else's energy and insights. The Council, seeking the Lord's choice for a successor in this key position, would welcome nominations. The pay is low and the job is a lot of work, but Dick says he's enjoyed every minute of it. Might you be the Lord's man-or woman-for this task?

ASA and CSCA have a strategic ministry of bridge-building. We have to stand in the middle, with one foot in the scientific community and the other in the church, as it were. That middle position becomes even more important as hard feelings and harsh rhetoric escalate in the so-called "creation/ evolution" controversy. With the worst probably yet to come, our Affiliations must be at their best. As "creationists" and "evolutionists" both claim that they're being attacked by the other side, we must more energetically defend both the integrity of science and the integrity of the Christian message.

In the 5 November 1982 issue of Science Ron has a major article on "Creationism in 20th-Century America." It should help clear up the relationship between evangelical Christianity, fundamentalism, and "scientific creationism" for the 160,000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The author has obviously talked personally with "creationist" leaders and generally gets his history straight.

One statement about ASA sounds incorrect, though, standing by itself: "Although the society adopted no statement of belief, during its early years strict creationists found its atmosphere congenial." In context, Numbers seems to mean that ASA adopted no statement of belief on flood geology, which is true. ASA has always had a statement of belief in the Bible and in Jesus Christ; the original statement was trimmed of a lot of theological detail at one point and a statement of faith in the legitimacy of a scientific approach for understanding God's world was added.

As we understand it, Ron Numbers grew up as a Seventh Day Adventist and did his doctoral dissertation on the medical writings of SDA prophetess Ellen G. White. The evidence of plagiarism he turned up greatly disturbed some Adventist leaders. Many SDA members have since left the church and now have their own magazine (Evangelica). The article in Science traces the influence of self-taught SDA "flood geologist" George McCready Price ( 1870-1963) on Henry Morris, one of the authors of The Genesis Flood ( 1961), "the most impressive contribution to strict creationism since the publication of Price's New Geology in 1923. "

Hyers decries the "literalist imagination-or lack of imagination" that pervades our culture, suffusing all of intellectual life (including science) with a "prosaic and pedantic mind-set." In religion the result is to move in the opposite direction from religious symbolism, "emptying symbols of their amplitude of meaning and power, reducing the cosmic dance to a calibrated discussion." (In Berkeley, where "cosmic dancers'' abound, a little calibrated discussion can put refreshing solidity into one's Christian witness. Even so, we see the point Hyers is making in the following paragraph-Ed.)

"One of the ironies of biblical literalism is that it shares so largely in the reductionist and literalist spirit of the age. It is not nearly so conservative as it supposes. It is modernistic, and it sells its symbolic birthright for a mess of tangible pottage. Biblical materials and affirmations-in this case the symbolism of Creator and creation-are treated as though of the same order and the same literary genre as scientific and historical writing. 'I believe in God the Father Almighty' becomes a chronological issue, and 'Maker of heaven and earth' a technological problem."

Conrad Hyers has written a book on The Comic (not Cosmic) Vision and the Christian Faith, He wrote his doctoral dissertation at Princeton Theological Seminary on Genesis 1-3. He is currently on leave to work on a book on the biblical theology of creation. He says he wishes we could get beyond futile discustions in order to deal more forcefully with the real issues, "such as the need to distinguish between evolution and evolutionism, the inclination of some scientists to leap from scientific data and theory to atheistic conclusions, the problem of the naturalistic bias of scientific inquiry, the issue of randomness and design, etc."

Many ASA members could say Amen to that. Some of you might want to correspond with Professor Hyers, as Harold Hartzler and Walt Hearn have already done.

Elving Anderson also has a very sensible article entitled "Evolution, Yes; but Creation, Too" in the 8 October 1982 issue of Christianity Today. Joining him on the "ancient earth" side is Calvin College geologist Davis A. Young. Their two articles balance two by "young earth" protagonists Duane Gish and Thomas Barnes, both of the Institute for Creation Research. A five-page editorial on "Guideposts for the Current Debate over Origins" precedes the four articles. CT concludes that "the preponderance of scientific evidence from geology and astronomy favors a universe 15 to 20 billion years old (since what might have been a 'big bang' of divine creative energy to start things), and an earth with an age of 4 or 5 billion years." CT finds theistic evolution hard to swallow, though, because "at the very least the believer must introduce sheer supernatural miracle at two points in the process: original creation and the origin of man." Alas, nowhere in that whole issue is ASA even mentioned.

We finally scrounged copies of the articles by Davis Young and Norman Geisler published in the May 1982 issue of Eternity. In "Genesis: Neither More nor Less," Davis laid out six classical ways of interpreting the Genesis creation narrative. Pointing to the compatibility of "creation science" as defined in Arkansas Act 590 with only one of them (the "literal-historical theory"), he argued that Judge Overton's decision "should not be viewed as a setback for genuine biblical creationism." But Norm Geisler's "What Didn't Happen at Little Rock" argued that Christians should be upset about the decision. He claimed that the Overton decision "in effect, establishes the religion of secular humanism, since it permits only its tenets to be taught in the science classroom."

Another magazine that devoted a full issue to creationism was Academe, Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors (Mar/Apr 1982). Two members debated the wisdom of the 1981 AAUP resolution opposing "creation-science" legislation. Biologist John A. Moore and theologian Lawrence Boadt challenged creation-science assertions and lawyer Robert M. O'Neil explored legal aspects of "balanced treatment." The full text of Judge Overton's opinion in Rev. Bill McLean vs. Arkansas

Board of Education was printed in the same issue. (Thanks to Mack Goldsmith of Modesto, California, for that one-Ed.)

Finally, the Journal of Geological Education devoted almost its entire January issue to "scientific creationism," including a very detailed article on "Finding the Age of the Earth: By Physics or by Faith?" by Stephen G. Brush of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the U. of Maryland. (Thanks to Ken VanDellen of Warren, Michigan, for sending us that one-Ed.)

On 18 October John went into a coma after talking of heaven and of being reunited with his wife, who had preceded him in death. He never came out of the coma. The funeral service was held on 7 November in the college auditorium. John was buried next to his wife's grave on the school campus. Professors Lee Hur and Grace Lee are trying to carry on the work of the college. Lee spent every night in the hospital outside John's room in the Intensive Care Unit, after attending him in his room several nights before he went into the coma.

"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints" (Psalm 116:15).

At the 1982 Annual Meeting the publisher took orders for Pun's book on the basis of galleys on display there. Now we've had time to browse in the copy that has come in the mail. Two-thirds of it is devoted to evaluating the scientific bases for evolution, the final third to Christian interpretations including the author's own. Pattie rejects fiat creation because of problems with the scientific evidence for the age of the earth, and theistic evolution because of conflicts with the historic interpretation of Scripture. He takes his stand in the "progressive creationist" tradition of Bernard Ramm and many others, following to some extent the lead of Robert Newman and Herman Eckelmann (Genesis One and the Origin of the Earth, Baker, 1977); he regards both the "overlapping day-age model" and the "modified intermittent-day model" as exegetically sound.

Pun's Evolution is part of Zondervans's Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives series on Science and the Bible, which already includes Davis Young's 1982 book, Christianity and the Age of the Earth. We salute the growing library of books by ASA authors

in various disciplines who take a middle position in the "creationist /evolutionist" conflict. (And, of course, with our well known penchant, we welcome a book of Pun's.) Pattie, who is originally from India, by the way, studied chemistry at San Diego State and earned his Ph.D. in molecular biology at S.U.N.Y.

Somehow we missed Kerby's book even though it was recommended (with a slight caveat on a point or two) by the keynote speaker, distinguished human geneticist V Elving Anderson (no relation). According to the publisher, Kerby describes recent developments in reproductive biology and genetic research and then explores the social, legal, moral, ethical, and theological questions they raise. In addition to warnings about certain dangers, he has some positive things to say about the benefits of genetic research.

"Genetic Engineering challenges the Christian to take an educated look at the whole field of genetics and to become actively involved in the future directions genetic engineering may take."

Sound strange? That's how strange our usual talk about "man" and "mankind'' and "his relationship to God" or "his scientific work" must sound to half the people created in God's image. Wouldn't most males assume that paragraph didn't apply to them? But anyone "turned off" by its wording should be able to see why our sisters in Christ often feel ignored or excluded. Sometimes "man" includes them but sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes "he" means "he or she" but often it doesn't. Shouldn't ASA speakers be more sensitive? It's so easy to use inclusive language:

"Because we are created in God's image, human beings have a unique relationship to the Creator. Scientists can 'think God's thoughts' as they work in their laboratories. We who are both scientists and Christians can serve the Lord by serving humanity and the rest of God's creation."

At the 1982 Annual Meeting, speakers were seldom egregiously sexist but were often careless. After one session chemist Tom Cummings of Bradley was muttering "Why can't ASA do something about that?" His wife Mary gave a "that's just how it is" shrug. Chemist Anne Deckard and her engineer husband John Deckard of Michigan were in on the conversation. Asked how long she thought it would take to change things, Anne sighed and shook her head: "Ten years, maybe."

Maybe not. Chemist Chi-Hang Lee's presidential address was exemplary in its use of inclusive language. In fact one of his anecdotes illustrated how speaking both Mandarin and Cantonese can sensitize one to linguistic nuances-even though Chinese personal pronouns are genderless.

We don't know whether Christian News approved or disapproved. They did say that members of ASA and CSCA "claim to be evangelical Christians" and added "The ASA-CSCA does not insist upon the inerrancy of the Bible and the Genesis account of creation." They probably hadn't seen the statement of faith affirmed by all members, that "the Holy Scriptures are the inspired Word of God, the only unerring guide of faith and conduct."

Christian News seems to carry a lot of news about the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Without seeing the masthead, though, we can't tell what the newspaper "claims to be.'' It may be that for some ASA-CSCA members, "inerrancy" (at least without a clear-cut definition of "error") is also a kind of pseudoproblem. Most of us have no problems with "the Genesis account of creation--only with inerrant-sounding interpretations of it.

Now we're going to give you two good reasons why you should be a subscriber to Radix magazine: ( 1) the Sept/Oct 1982 issue, with Walter R. Thorson's "Thinking About Thinking," a stimulating lecture from a New College/ASA symposium, and (2) the Nov/Dec 1982 issue on environmental stewardship focusing on the AuSable Trails Institute; it has writing by Cal DeWitt, Walt Hearn, and Gil Prance and a major article on "Nature in the Jewish Tradition: The Source of Stewardship" by Rutgers biologist David Ehrenfeld (author of The Arrogance of Humanism).

Each issue of Radix is also a visual delight, partly because it carries little or no advertising. Imagine a thoughtful, wider anging Christian magazine witnessing to contemporary culture, with high literary and artistic standards, and you've got half the picture. Now consider the current economic crunch and you've got the other half. Radix has always been a shoestring operation with no money left over to expand circulation. The shoestring is getting badly frayed. Radix depends on its friends to tell their friends what they've been missing. (That's what we're doing now-Ed.)

Six issues a year for $10 ($12 foreign, $6 students or people with incomes lower than the Radix editor's). Checks to Radix, P.O. Box 2116, Berkeley, CA 94702. Or order the individual issues mentioned above at $2 each, postpaid. Or send a contribution: Radix is a " reader- sponsored" magazine, with about half its budget coming from (tax-deductible) donations.

Keith B . Miller ( 109 E. Conestoga St., New Holland, PA 17557; tel. 717-354-7961), seeks a teaching position in geology in a college, university, or junior college in the Middle Atlantic region. Keith has a B.A. in geology from Franklin & Marshall College and an M.A. in geology from S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton. His graduate studies have included terrestrial, marine, and reef paleoecology as well as depositional environments. Keith has a Pennsylvania Instructional I teaching certificate and two years' experience as a graduate teaching assistant. Transcripts and letters of recommendation are on file at the Career Development Center, S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13901.

Timothy Sherratt (2139 E. 2nd St., Tucson, AZ 85719; tel. 602-881-9068), seeks a position in political science beginning January 1983 or thereafter. He is completing his Ph.D. dissertation at the U. of Arizona on political reform in the U.S. and is interested in political theory (including the philosophy of science), American political institutions, and American history. Tim is the author of "By What Authority: Verification of Theories in the Social Sciences: A Christian Perspective" in the June 1982 issue of JASA. In June 1982 he married another ASA member, Christine Stewart of Tucson.

Westmont College in California keeps inserting this notice because they want to find the right people: two chemistry profs (organic/bio and inorganic/ analytical) and one physics prof (solid state/materials science) for fall 1983. See details in June/July Newsletter. Applicants interested in overseas rotation are especially welcome. Send resumes to: Dr. Stanley E. Anderson, Dept. of Chemistry & Physics, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108. (Repeat request received 25 August.)

Hope College in Michigan has a number of openings for August 1983. Affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, Hope has over 2400 students and 140 faculty. Commitment to the character and goals of the college is required, plus commitment to quality undergraduate teaching (generally including development of research programs in which undergraduates can participate). Send c.v., graduate and undergraduate transcripts; have three references write to the individuals named below at: Hope College, Holland, MI 49423; tel (616) 392-5111. chemistry, Ph.D. in analytical, inorganic, or organic, with preference to candidates with research experience in organometallics, electrochemistry, or analytical separations; include research plans:

Prof. W. S. Mungall, Chair, Dept. of Chemistry. biology: Ph.D. in botany, post-doctoral experience desired; mathematics: Ph.D. strongly preferred, to teach operations research, numerical analysis and/or mathematical statistics; physics: Ph.D. required, post-doctoral experience desired in experimental physics; computer science: Master's required, experience and further study desired: David G. Marker, Provost. (Received 8 October. Several ASA members serve on the Hope College faculty, including president Gordon Van Wylen and chemist Eugene Jekel.)

Phillips University in Oklahoma has a position in mathematics for August 1983, teaching undergraduate courses for majors preparing for mathematics graduate study, secondary education, computer science, and scientific and business applications. Tenure-track, 9 months with possible option of summer school. Private liberal arts university founded and supported by the Christian Church; 1200 students, 77 fulltime faculty, 40 adjunct faculty, 125 miles west of Tulsa. Send resum6, transcripts, and three letters of reference to: Dr. Leo Hall, Science & Mathematics, Phillips University, Enid, OK 73702. (Received 12 October, from Roy Rakestraw in the Mathematics Dept.)

Miami University in Ohio has several openings. Contact individual named below at: Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. Geology: Ph.D. with ongoing research in igneous petrology or geophysics; Prof. Dwight Baldwin; Microbiology: Ph.D. with postdoctoral experience in cellular immunology; Prof. R. J. Brady (Received 15 November, from Ed Yamauchi of the History Dept.)

According to the section's Newsletter, the executive committee has decided to produce a brochure on science and faith, possibly in cooperation with InterVarsity Press. They've also decided to stock only ASA/CSCA materials for sale at local meetings, relying on a local bookseller to supply other titles for the book table on a consignment basis.

Theme of the meeting was "Christian Response to the Environmental Crisis." It got off to a powerful start with an outstanding film on "The Biosphere" from the National Film Board and remarks of Raymond Robinson, Executive Chair of the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office. Robinson, whose post is just below cabinet level, has been in the headlines over U.S. failure to cooperate with Canada on the acid rain problem. Robinson spoke of agonizing on his knees over decisions affecting a fragile creation and asked for Christian support in his role of "managing our ignorance" about the environment. Al Cairnie, who also holds a responsible position in the toxic substances division of Environment Canada, echoed the need for help in coping with immediate practical problems. The Ottawa section (about half of whom were present) plans to form some kind of support group as a result (see Bob's HERRMANNEUTICS in this issue).

Geographer Henry Aay provided an orientation on the interaction of Christian values and environmental problems. Environmental health engineer Dave Swift discussed how science and technology can provide solutions to environmental problems when they've also been part of the cause. Sounds like an exciting meeting.

METROPOLITAN NEW YORK

The section's fall meeting was held on November 6 at The King's College on the topic "God and Caesar: The Relationship of the Christian and the State." The program was put together by the section president, Ralph G. Ellenberger, associate professor of anthropology and sociology at Nyack College. Ralph introduced the topic, handing out six or seven pages of excellent notes on appropriate Scripture passages, questions, "case-studies," and a bibliography. David Huttar, professor of Bible and Greek at the Alliance Seminary in Nyack, analyzed Romans 13:1-7 in detail.

After discussion, business meeting, and dinner, Dennis P. Hollinger, assistant professor of church and society at the Alliance Seminary, discussed the sociological and theological perspectives of the topic. The program was outstanding, even if all the problems weren't solved in one day. We heard from both Jim Neidhardt and Bob Voss about it. Bob, the section's executive secretary, sent us a draft motion of proposed changes in the bylaws to be voted on, establishing new categories of membership to draw more people into the section. The section is finding that its modest registration fees for meetings are not covering the costs, so more emphasis is being placed on payment of annual dues. Sounds like the members are getting their money's worth.

between Virginia and Maryland. The section is putting together its own speakers' bureau. It hopes to serve local churches by assisting them on issues of science and faith but also by being a unifying influence through the fellowship of ASA members from various churches. Ed wants the meetings to be "based on the Lordship of Jesus, edifying and stimulating to those who come."

Bill Lucas of Temple Hills, Maryland, edits the Newsletter, for which the section has obtained a bulk mailing permit and use of a word-processing computer. The first issue announced an ASA family picnic for July 17 and contained a statement of Ed Allen's goals for the section. It also included a review of Joseph G. Barredo's book on "triondynamics," An Ultramathematical Subquantum Definition of Distance, Space, and Time (Washington, DC: MIAS Press, 1982). Reviewer Bill Lucas said that this book by a devout Roman Catholic "provides natural mechanisms by which God can create and sustain the physical universe and perform miracles."

A note from Glenn Kirkland of the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins indicates that even a spiffy Newsletter announcement couldn't turn out a big crowd on such a hot Saturday, but those who did come had a good time together under the shady trees of the Christian Assembly Center in Vienna, Virginia. The fall meeting, held at the Davis Public Library in Bethesda, Maryland, on September 30, did a lot better. It featured Raymond Seeger speaking on "The Humanism of Science: A Christian Perspective."

Raymond Seeger retired recently from the National Science Foundation, where he had held several important posts including Special Assistant to the Director. A physicist, he was the first director of the U. of Maryland's Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, and is now adjunct professor of applied science at both The George Washington University and American University. He has always been interested in the history and philosophy of physics, and his seven books include biographies of Galileo, Mach, Benjamin Franklin, and Josiah Willard Gibbs.

According to Bill Lucas, Seeger gave a delightful but scholarly talk, emphasizing the human interrelations of science. "No scientists practice science without putting in something of themselves -notions, culture, values, prejudices, worldview."

He reminded his audience that the methods of science have built-in limitations for discovering and expressing truth, just as individual scientists have their own limitations. "As Christians we must clearly perceive the humanism of science and its inherent limitations when we try to reconcile our Christian beliefs based on the Scriptures with the 'real world' as perceived via science."

Bob Schmitz seems to be sparkplugging revival of the Chicago section. He says response to the meeting was positive and the attendance not bad considering the short notice. He'd like some help getting things rolling again. His address is 5938 W. Lake St., Chicago, IL 60644. Tel. 312-378-5889 (home) or 312922-94 10, Ext 272 (work).

Local president Larry Kells says that plans are underway for another symposium cosponsored with New College in Berkeley. The date set for that meeting is January 15 and the topic is "Teaching Science from a Christian Perspective."